The red blood cells burst, releasing the parasite throughout the body. In 1949, British geneticist Anthony Allison found that the frequency of sickle cell carriers in tropical Africa was higher in ...

It turns out that, in these areas, HbS carriers have been naturally selected, because the trait confers some resistance to malaria. Their red blood cells ... of their sickle shape -- and the ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited blood disorders resulting from a mutation in the hemoglobin protein in red blood cells. This mutation changes the shape of the blood cells from round, ...

Sickle cell disease affects only adult hemoglobin, causing it to clump and distort red blood cells into a sickle shape.

Those with sickle cell disease produce unusually shaped red blood cells. It can be life-threatening and cause recurring intense pain, when blood vessels become blocked by the misshapen cells.

The groundbreaking treatment’s technology used Beauzile’s own bone marrow in IV transfusions to create normal red blood cells ...

Scientists have discovered more than a dozen genes that regulate the production of fetal hemoglobin in people of African ...

For teenagers with sickle cell disease ... SCD is a genetic blood disorder that affects the shape and function of red blood cells, leading to painful crises, anaemia, and potential organ damage.

In some cases, the red blood cells break down, releasing haemoglobin, which breaks down to produce bilirubin responsible for yellowness in eyes. Sickle cell is genetic and “if a carrier marries ...

“You might carry the gene (or trait) for sickle cell disorder and not even know it,” says Virginia Tshibangu, a Clinical ...

Dr Frederick Okinyi, a specialist in blood disorder and a lecturer at Nairobi University. [File, Standard] Today, the world will commemorate Sickle ... red blood cells to adopt a crescent shape ...

Sickle cell is a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood cell proteins. It often leads to pain, anemia and other issues. The National Institute of Health says it touches more than ...